Model Simulation Experiments Improve Monsoon Forecasting
Monsoons can have a significant impact on human populations all around the world, bringing heavy rainfall associated with flooding and mudslides that can damage crops…
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Icebergs as a Source of Nutrients – Climate Change Could Lead to More Iron Fertilization
Will climate change lead to more iron fertilization in the ocean? Sea creatures, whether large or small, need nutrients. The supply mechanism delivering these nutrients…
Snowmageddon Weather in North America More Influenced by Tropics Than Arctic
First ever study of how North America’s four main weather regimes are affected by polar vortex strength. Winter weather patterns in North America are dictated…
300-Million-Year-Old Atmospheric Dust Analyzed by Geoscientists – Here’s What They Found
University of Oklahoma geoscientists document the role of atmospheric dust on marine ecosystems 300 million years ago. Dust plays a crucial role in the life…
Extreme Atmospheric Chemistry: Barrels of Ancient Antarctic Air Aim to Track History of Rare Gas
Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica’s snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth’s atmosphere over…
Underground Fiber-Optic Cables Capture “Thunderquakes” Thunder-Induced Seismic Events
Underground fiber-optic cables, like those that connect the world through phone and internet service, hold untapped potential for monitoring severe weather, according to scientists at…
High Above Storm Clouds, Lightning Powers Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Ultraviolet ‘Elves’
Using instruments onboard the International Space Station, researchers have observed millisecond pulses of gamma rays produced by thunderstorms, clarifying the process by which these flashes…
Global Food Production at Risk From Large Atmospheric Waves in the Jet Stream
In a new study published today (December 9, 2019) in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase…
Saving the Ozone Layer in 1987 Slowed Global Warming – Here’s How
The Montreal Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1987 to stop chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from destroying the ozone layer, now appears to be the first international…
First Comprehensive Global Picture of the Mutual Prediction of Atmosphere and Ocean
World-renowned climate scientist J. Shukla calls the new paper by University of Maryland scientists ‘a very important paper in the history of predictability research.’ University…
Smog-Eating Graphene Composite Reduces Atmospheric Pollution With Sunlight
Graphene Flagship partners the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, CNR, NEST, Italcementi HeidelbergCement Group, the Israel Institute of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, and…
Scientists Warn: Nine Climate Tipping Points Now ‘Active’ – Could Threaten the Existence of Human Civilization
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now “active,” a group of leading scientists have warned. This threatens the…
Chaos in the Night Sky: First Measures of Earth’s Ionosphere With Largest Atmospheric Radar in Antarctic
There’s chaos in the night sky, about 60 to 600 miles (100 to 1,000 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. Called the ionosphere, this layer of Earth’s…
New and Strange Climate Pattern Includes More Violent El Nino Swings
Compelling Hard Evidence: El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age El Ninos have become more intense in the industrial age, which stands to…
New Findings Call Into Question Current Understanding of Earth’s Sulfur Cycle
Laboratory results from Leipzig question current knowledge on the degradation of dimethyl sulfide within the sulfur cycle. An international research team was able to experimentally…
“Mind Boggling” Mars Mystery As Oxygen Doesn’t Behave by Known Chemistry
For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above…
Ice Formation in Clouds Created by Air Turbulence
Scientists from Leipzig measure an important sub-process of the water cycle. Vertical air motions increase ice formation in mixed-phase clouds. This correlation was predicted theoretically…
Climate Emergency Declared by Scientists – Risk of “Untold Human Suffering”
A global coalition of scientists led by William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of Oregon State University says “untold human suffering” is unavoidable without deep…
